Municipal Archive Brussels (23-11-2007)

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Other

For every-one who doesn't know or remember: I work in the municipal archive of Antwerp.... and I took this day off from work to visit: another archive! Please don' tell my colleagues ;-p

We had never been to this archive yet so the exhibit about city lights (Du Halo au Reseau / Zicht op Licht) was a great excuse to check it out.
The outside building doesn't look that impressive but the entrance looks terrific. Lots of old wood and ironwork; nice and dusty looking.

The exhibit was great too: nice old pictures, posters, drawings, etc. etc.
For me it's always fun to see the kind of documents I see at work on a daily basis in another context. A nice thing for every-one who doesn't work in an archive are the old drawings of streetlights which look so much nicer than most do nowadays!
And after all: the lights are just what a makes a city a great city. But maybe I'm biased because my granddad used to work for Philips (see pic) and used to show me the many lights of his city with much pride ;-)

Check out the archive (in French and Dutch): http://www.brucity.be/artdet.cfm?nLanguage=2&id=4610